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- Summary: Story of bullying and poverty and the power of friendship, told with passion by Bookbag favourite, Bali Rai. Super-readable and dyslexia friendly.
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"The Harder They Fall" is set in the 1950s and follows the story of Eddie Willis, a down-on-his-luck sportswriter who is recruited by a corrupt boxing promoter named Nick Benko. Benko's latest scheme involves exploiting a giant South American boxer named Toro Moreno, who is marketed as an unbeatable force in the ring.
Nov 9, 2021 · Netflix’s new Western action flick, ‘The Harder They Fall’, comes out with all guns blazing. The movie follows Nat Love, an infamous outlaw who learns his nemesis Rufus Buck has been released from prison. He rounds up his old gang and sets out to get revenge.
By Beth Williamson. Available in: Ebook. Published: December 16, 2014. The bigger they are, the harder they fall… TJ Maguire runs her father’s successful rodeo business, and is busily trying to wrap up the final rodeo of the season.
Buy The Harder They Fall by Bali Rai at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com. Category: Dyslexia Friendly. Reviewer: Jill Murphy. Summary: Story of bullying and poverty and the power of friendship, told with passion by Bookbag favourite, Bali Rai. Super-readable and dyslexia friendly.
Oct 22, 2021 · Film Summary. As a child, Nat had a loving mother, gentle father, and that was stolen from him, and he was left with a cross etched into his forehead by one Rufus Buck. For the rest of his life, he hunted that man, other outlaws, and the man who held him down while Rufus took a blade to his skin.
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Oct 22, 2021 · By Marc Miller. Published: October 22, 2021 (Last updated: January 4, 2024) 0. 3.5. Summary. The Harder They Fall i s a relentless Western that bristles with vitality. This review of the Netflix film The Harder They Fall does not contain spoilers. The revenge thriller has been done ten times over. Do you know the kind of Western?
- Nat Love
- Bass Reeves
- Rufus Buck
- Cherokee Bill
- Stagecoach Mary
- Jim Beckwourth
- Bill Pickett
Riding at the center of The Harder They Fall is the outlaw Nat Love, played with a smoldering intensity by Jonathan Majors. Majors’ Love engages in petty thievery and seeks revenge on a man who killed his parents and then branded him when he was a child. Much of what we know about the real Nat Love comes from his 1907 autobiography: The Life and Ad...
In The Harder They Fall, Majors’ Nat Love finds an unlikely ally in the U.S. deputy marshal Bass Reeves (Delroy Lindo), who helps him hunt down Rufus Buck. Reeves was a revered lawman in Indian Territory for three decades starting in 1875, handcuffing more than 3,000 felons; he was known for being unbuyable at a time in which many lawmen accepted b...
Idris Elba’s Rufus Buck walks a path not unsimilar to one of his most famous characters: The Wire’s Stringer Bell. Like Bell, Buck is a lifelong criminal hardened by systemic injustice and racism. He believes that through his criminal enterprise, he can build legitimate business structures that will better his community—but takes ruthless approache...
While Cherokee Bill, portrayed in the film by Lakeith Stanfield, did not run in Rufus Buck’s gang as The Harder They Fall depicts, he was a feared criminal in his own right. He was born Crawford Goldsby; his mixed heritage included Sioux, Mexican, Black and white ancestors. As a teenager, he rode with the Cook Gang, stealing horses, holding up trai...
Zazie Beets’ Mary Fields is Nat Love’s romantic foil; she owns a saloon and is also something of a burlesque performer. The real life Mary Fields became renowned in middle age, when she agreed to leave her home in Ohio to join a Catholic mission in the wilds of Montana. Mary Fields is said to have been born on a Tennessee plantation around 1832. Fo...
RJ Cyler plays the cocky Jim Beckwourth, who believes himself to be the quickest draw in the west. The real Beckwourth actually had a far more rip-roaring life. Beckwourth was a mountaineer and explorer who went on fur-trapping expeditions across the Rocky Mountains. In the 1820s, he left white society to live among the Crow people, fathering sever...
The real Bill Pickett wasn’t a sharpshooter, like Edi Gathegi’s character, but perhaps the most famous Black rodeo rider of the early 20th century. Bickett grew up in Oklahoma in a ranching family and soon pioneered the rodeo sport of “bulldogging,” in which he would grab a bull by the horns and bite into its upper lip to immobilize it. Pickett soo...
